Sentence examples for change in spending from inspiring English sources
Unless there's a change in spending behavior, consumers could run up their credit card bills again.
For Mr. Ashcroft, the change in spending priorities before Sept. 11 and after has been especially noteworthy.
Administration officials conceded that the change in spending priorities resulted in part from criticism in Congress and the news media of the Clinton policy to give the bulk of the anti-narcotics funds to Colombia for military aid.
The managers, some of whom own stocks in the sector, said that while they, too, had been looking for an increase in demand, they had found no fundamental change in spending.
"What we are seeing is a change in spending patterns, not a drop in the desire for luxury items," Elan Shou, managing director and vice president of Ruder Finn Asia, a public relations and market research firm, wrote in an e-mail.
The table below shows the change in spending power of all local authorities, including shire counties.
The Ruder Finn/Ipsos China Luxury Forecast 2012, released in July, revealed some major changes in spending patterns, as consumers are cautiously planning for the next year.
But more important, some changes in spending policies of the sort Mr. Levy suggests should be put in place to prevent future budget crises.
Although many analysts question whether the overall confidence numbers say much about the economy's direction, they say the individual questions within surveys often forecast changes in spending.
Mr. Fuchs notes that short-term fluctuations do a terrible job at predicting trends over the longer term: over the last 60 years the correlation between changes in spending over two years and over 20 years has been, in fact, negative.
